The BFI has just released a DVD collection of short films by experimental British filmmaker Jeff Keen. To review a selection of these films, Alex Fitch is joined by Tania Glyde and (belatedly) Kim Morgan, former presenters of Midnight Sex Talk, a frank programme on all aspects of sexuality that ran for two years on Resonance FM.
The Val Lewton-produced shadowy horror classic gets a radiant new release from Criterion.
Review by Kim Newman
A few months before Freddy Krueger began stalking the sleep of American teens in the A Nightmare on Elm Street franchise, Joseph Ruben’s Dreamscape used the world of dreams as a battleground.
Review by Neil Mitchell
‘I want things,’ says Laurie Starr, anti-heroine of cult film noir Gun Crazy.
Review by Frances Morgan
Cinematic speculation regarding the future state of New York City ranges from the perilously polluted urban environment of Soylent Green to the multi-cultural melting pot of The Fifth Element, but the most memorable vision of the Big Apple of tomorrow is arguably offered by John Carpenter’s enduring cult favourite Escape from New York.
Review by John Berra
Now released in an expanded stand-alone version after the US flop of the ‘Grindhouse’ double bill (which also comprised Robert Rodriguez’ forthcoming Planet Terror), Death Proof is Quentin Tarantino’s latest tongue-in-cheek homage to genre cinema. After heist movies, blaxploitation and martial arts actioners, now it’s the turn of the 70s exploitation flick to get the Tarantino treatment.
Review by Virginie Sélavy